For any new listeners who don’t yet know Vivica Menegaz, she’s most known for being a nutritionist, cookbook author, and blogger of The Nourished Caveman, a site that shares a therapeutic approach to food.

She’s even created her own Healing Foods Method to help people transform their health by switching to a whole-foods, low-carb lifestyle.

But nutrition isn’t her only area of expertise.

As you’ll hear more about in this episode, Vivica is also a holistic practitioner who guides people using plant-based medicines like ayahuasca and others.

In this area, she helps people move through emotional and mental blocks and helps them get past traumas that could be holding them back.

Here’s a sneak peek of the topics Vivica and I get into, which you’ll hear more about when you tune in:

Cultivating immunity and building resilience to prevent viruses like Covid from taking over

The connection between gut health and immunity and why it pays to strengthen your gut health

Why our guts are so damaged and what we can do to fix this

Why Vivica goes deep into the jungle to heal her traumas and how she uses plants medicinally

How Vivica starts to help people heal

How long trauma is stored in the body and where it can be tucked away

The correlation between trauma and autoimmunity

The definition of trauma and how it can apply to a range of experiences

How Vivica found herself on this healing journey

Why some people heal faster than others

How she started experimenting with plant medicine and the drugs she first started tapping into

What saved her life

How she went from being suicidal to healing personal traumas

Why she recommends that people find therapists trained in these alternative therapies instead of self-medicating like she did

Why she personally started working with ayahuasca and how she uses it now

What people should know before taking ayahuasca

Vivica also explains how her experience with MDMA and ayahuasca differed

What you can do to get a dose of these therapies when you don’t have access to these types of medicines